@mos_8502 Probably because (even 😏) tex is more readable (and, of course, more verbose) 😉

The only thing that still forces you to use (a limited subset of) #roff (with some macro package) is authoring manpages that should work "everywhere" (read, systems without #mandoc support) 😉

Of course, still an interesting thing to cover. I guess "power users" (having to typeset stuff a lot) would actually like the pretty terse syntax.